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| NatPurwa : A Village without colours |
Nat Purwa which is a small village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is about a two-hour drive from the provincial capital, Lucknow. In the mornings dozens of young children wearing tattered clothes trot along its dusty streets. It is quite hard not to notice their big, undernourished bellies. The children disappear into the fields, chasing away stray cattle.
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| They don't know anything. .. |
Like most other villages around here, Nat Purwa suffers from poverty, lacking in basic facilities. But one element makes the village stand out from others in the area: Here, PROSTITUTION is a hereditary occupation, passed on from one generation of women to the next.
This is a way back tradition .Which is started in 1871, the Criminal Tribes Act was passed under British rule, which classified certain tribes as engaging in "criminal activities". The Nats were one of the tribes targeted by this law.They used to be dancers, acrobats, jugglers and magicians.
During the colonial period, the British outlawed their activities. They got beaten up, arrested, exploited, locked up and brutalisation continued. This dried up their traditional source of livelihood and basic source of income and women had no choice. They ended up in prostitution - what [else] will they do?
This business has been continuing for the past 300 years as the only 'profession', where the women are the head of the family.
Some Ngo's are working for their welfare like ASHA TRUST but our government need to open its eyes and see how a village which is just few kilometers far from well developed Uttar Pradesh's capital i.e Lucknow but on the other hand it is miles away in the name of development.
So this was a starnge case frm the very populated state Uttar Pradesh .....
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